Pokémon Model Ripping Project

[magikstar]

A little bonus (solgaleo was exported using Ohana3DS, as SPICA didn't have animation export, and it's a lot more jerky, specially the legs and tail)

Well if you elaborate on the problems you had, I'm always working to improve the software. In fact it can export animations to DAE (through someone said it doesn't work on Max, no idea if this is still the case), and if by jerky you mean that the animation was slow/lagging this was fixed recently aswell.

Yeah I had to use some workarounds, I did export the animations using SPICA to DAE and used a software called Neosis to convert to FBX, from there I can import the models exported as SMD to Max and just update the animation using FBX (it doesn't crash this way, it still does crash if I import the DAE directly), it's a not so clever trick, but it works! hehe, thanks for everything tho, both SPICA and Ohana3ds are excelent programs! I'd say the best next step would be to export the animations from SPICA as SMD, 3DSMax really doesn't like DAE, FBX is ok tho, but since I usually work with the Source engine, and SMD is such a versatile format, it's mostly my go to format for both models and animations. It just so happened that I didn't know how to get the DAE files to work with 3DSMax, so for that solgaleo I used a very old Ohana3ds version, but even with the latest commit the animations are still somewhat jerky

venusaur's jerky legs


and it's totally fixed in SPICA, even tho the camera is a little hard to maneuver, but no big deal!

Where do you find SPICA?

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I've been working on a new tool to view/export and (at some point) import models from/to all the 3ds Pokémon model formats. It is already better than Ohana3DS in some parts (more accurate rendering, material animation support for Sun/Moon, more smooth animations, and other issues are fixed aswell).

This is an animation of Plumeria playing on it:

Spoiler

Since this is a lot of work to do, I would love some help from anyone with a bit of knowledge in programming/C#, stuff like a GUI and exporters/importes needs to be done etc. And I'm already losing the motivation to work on it (always happen when I work on a project for some time). So if anyone is willing to help, this is the repo: https://github.com/gdkchan/SPICA

Also sorry RTB if this isn't the right place for this, but I guess it's ok since the thread is about Pokémon model ripping and since everyone here wants to get the models ripped I guess its the best place to try getting contributors too!

Can you make a tutorial on how to use SPICA? or link me to one